--------------Flesh of the sky, child of the sky, the mindHas been obligated from the beginningTo create an ordered universeAs the only possible proof of its own inheritance. † † † † † † † † † † † † - Pattiann Rogers

My birthday wish for you is that you do not wake up after a birthday bender and find yourself on Seti Alpha V.

--------------It's natural to be curious about our world, but the scientific method is just one theory about how to best understand it. †We live in a democracy, which means we should treat every theory equally. - Steven Colbert, I Am America (and So Can You!)

I would provide you with an excellent and hilarious picture or LOLCat about now but I have none. In that case, I shall rely on the old favourites:

Louis

P.S. Don't enjoy it all at once. Like a fine wine, this aged LOLCat is best sipped delicately, allowing the well matured LOLFlavours to spread across your palate. Or you could go with Deadman's hunky vodka man, either way is good.

--------------It's natural to be curious about our world, but the scientific method is just one theory about how to best understand it. †We live in a democracy, which means we should treat every theory equally. - Steven Colbert, I Am America (and So Can You!)

It feels kinda weird to wish somebody happy birthday ON their actual birthday, for a change (I see afarensis is so averse to the practice that he post-dated his message...but I'm not prepared to follow blindly in his Laetolian footsteps).

I would provide you with an excellent and hilarious picture or LOLCat about now but I have none. In that case, I shall rely on the old favourites:

Louis

P.S. Don't enjoy it all at once. Like a fine wine, this aged LOLCat is best sipped delicately, allowing the well matured LOLFlavours to spread across your palate. Or you could go with Deadman's hunky vodka man, either way is good.

Bloody Hell I'm good at this! This is the exact post I was about to make! What a coinkydink!

--------------"But it's disturbing to think someone actually thinks creationism -- having put it's hand on the hot stove every day for the last 400 years -- will get a different result tomorrow." -- midwifetoad

I second Vun Kannon's question. Dang...you go away on vacation for a week and everyone gets a year older! (Waiting patiently for the research to get published on this physical anomaly)

Happy Belated, Khan!

Buddy of mine had a poster of a mountain goat alone on a hilltop.

"He's so far behind, he thinks he's first."

--------------"But it's disturbing to think someone actually thinks creationism -- having put it's hand on the hot stove every day for the last 400 years -- will get a different result tomorrow." -- midwifetoad

--------------"Random mutations, if they are truly random, will affect, and potentially damage, any aspect of the organism, [...]Thus, a realistic [computer] simulation [of evolution] would allow the program, OS, and hardware to be affected in a random fashion." GilDodgen, Frilly shirt owner

--------------"But it's disturbing to think someone actually thinks creationism -- having put it's hand on the hot stove every day for the last 400 years -- will get a different result tomorrow." -- midwifetoad